Riza - Safely run untrusted code from your app
Hi HN, I’m Kyle and together with Andrew (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stanleydrew) we’ve been working on Riza (https://riza.io), a project to make WASM sandboxing more approachable. We’re excited to share a developer preview of our code interpreter API with HN. There’s a bit of a backstory here. A few months ago, an old coworker reached out asking how to execute untrusted code generated by an LLM. Based on our experience building a plugin system for sqlc (https://sqlc.dev), we thought a sandboxed WASM runtime would be a good fit. A bit of hacking…
Riza - Safely run untrusted code from your app launched on April 25, 2024 with 24 votes, #805 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Riza is an API for safely executing untrusted code within sandboxed WebAssembly environments. It provides HTTP access to dynamic language interpreters that run in isolation without external system access, designed for developers who need to run code generated by language models or other untrusted sources. The service targets developers building applications requiring secure code execution capabilities.
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From the sources
Riza is the production-ready isolated runtime for untrusted code.
LLMs can write code, but can’t safely execute their code without human review and make their code reusable. Riza provides the AI-first infrastructure that makes agents more capable, reliable, andfrom riza.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I’m Kyle and together with Andrew (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stanleydrew) we’ve been working on Riza (https://riza.io), a project to make WASM sandboxing more approachable. We’re excited to share a developer preview of our code interpreter API with HN. There’s a bit of a…
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